Media Beat: Jeremy Scahill on The Event Behind His Film ‘Dirty Wars’

Jeremy Scahill is the National Security Correspondent for The Nation and a New York Times bestselling author.

His second book, “Dirty Wars” was recently the basis of a film by the same name. Scahill told 10,000 words contributor Mona Zhang the story behind his first book about Blackwater and how an investigation in to a night raid by US Joint Special Operations Command became the driving force behind the film “Dirty Wars.”

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